Staff Members
Awais Azhar – Executive Director
awais@housingworksaustin.org
Julie Tegan – Education Manager
julie@housingworksaustin.org
Nick Jackson – Research Associate
nick@housingworksaustin.org
Nora Linares-Moeller – Finance and Fundraising Advisor
nora@housingworksaustin.org
Woody Rogers – Research Advisor
HousingWorks Austin Board of Directors
- Michele Anderson
Austin Habitat for Humanity - Emily Chenevert
Austin Board of Realtors(R) - John-Michael Cortez – Advocacy Committee Chair
Google Fiber - Ashton Cumberbatch – Secretary and Nominating Committee Chair
McGinnis Lochridge and Equidad ATX - Catharine Echols
Department of Psychology, University of Texas - Parisa Fatehi-Weeks – Chair
Indeed - Frances Ferguson
Mueller Foundation - Michael Gerber
Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA) - Julian Huerta
St. David’s Foundation - Diana McIver
DMA Companies - Terry Mitchell
MOMARK Development - Matthew Mollica
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) - Cile Montgomery
Omnissa - Karen Paup
Texas Housers - Emily Ryder Perlmeter
- Cookie G Ruiz, C.F.R.E.
Ballet Austin - Kathy Tyler
Austin Women in Housing - Quincy Dunlap
Austin Area Urban League - Don Baylor, Jr.
Lafayette Square Holding Company, LLC
HousingWorks Austin – Advocacy Committee Members – 2024
- Greg Anderson, Austin Habitat for Humanity
- John-Michael Cortez, Google Fiber – Advocacy Committee Chair
- Quincy Dunlap, Austin Area Urban League
- Catharine Echols, University of Texas at Austin
- Parisa Fatehi-Weeks, Indeed – HousingWorks Board Chair
- Shoshana Krieger, Building and Strengthening Tenant Action (BASTA), Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid
- Nora Linares-Moeller, HousingWorks Austin
- Bill McCamley, Transit Forward
- Matthew Mollica, Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO)
- Kate Moore, Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO)
- Katherine Nicely, Metcalfe Wolff Stuart & Williams, LLP
- Elizabeth Patton, Austin Board of Realtors (ABOR)
- Karen Paup, Texas Housers
- Mark Rogers, Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC)
- Taylor Smith, Austin Board of Realtors (ABOR)
- Dave Sullivan, University of Texas at Austin
- Scott Turner, Riverside Homes & Turner Residential
- Kathy Tyler, Austin Women in Housing
Past Board Members
Andrew Childers
João Paulo Connolly
Laura Morrison
Leland G. Dandridge
Frank Fernandez
Gus Garcia (deceased)
Dusty McCormick
John McKinnerney
John Limon (deceased)
Wes Peoples
Chris Peterson
Thuy Phan
Clint Smith
Dave Sullivan
Mark Rogers
Jeff Trigger